Guild Wars 2

OK this is proberly a noob question but what are the difference in the human and sylvari animations and movement. Is there any?

Thanks

the dance, pretty much. humans have some derpy disco move, sylvari have a bollywood dance routine, otherwise they are the same in terms of animation

Actually they have different idles. Here’s off the top of my head, as I’m not in game right now.

Male — Human: Brushes back of hand across mouth, fiddles with hands at waist level. Sylvari: Rubs back of head with head bent down. (I don’t recall the others).

Female — Human: None, due to a bug. But supposed to stretch arms up over head, set hands on hips, kick the ground, turn head one way and the other. Sylvari: Goes up on toes leaning forward with hands back, smiling in glee at the world. (I don’t recall the others but I know my ‘varis tend to keep looking to the side from where I’m pointing them).

There’s also different sounds to go with jumping, mining, etc. The male sylvari sounds constipated, and his laugh is snidely nasal. It bothers me no end, none of my alts sound like that in my head canon.

(Note — human dance isn’t disco, it’s the one from the video Every Day I’m Shufflin’ by the same people that did the I Work Out Wigglewigglewigglewigglewiggle video).

They also have different running animations when not using weapons.

Human dance is the Melbourne Shuffle.

Pretty Pixie.8603:

Human dance is the Melbourne Shuffle.

Every day I’m shuffalin’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnWUEru62hc

Human and sylvari differences

One does not taste like chicken.

This youtube video shows the dances that each race is based on.

Only differences are the running and idle animations. Weapon and combat animations are the same as the human ones.
Norn are better designed by the way, since they also got unique combat animations (most of the time).

This may not count as the combat/moving mentioned in the OP but the skill-associated shouts vary by race. A human female on looting something nice might gloat “Mine, all mine!” where a sylvari female would say “I want that!” Sylvari also say “This rose has thorns, and here they are!” which to me is much catchier than most human comments.

There are MANY differences. Every race runs differently and there are different standing around animations and many of the emotes are different. I’m not sure how many of the combat emotes are different, but defiintely the feel of your character as it’s moving around and out of combat are much different.